Mixing social justice and art, Complex Movements is up for Detroit’s People’s Choice Award

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Mixing social justice and art, Complex Movements is up for Detroit’s People’s Choice Award

Published July 26, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

Now through Aug. 9, five small Detroit arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Sage Crump of nominee Complex Movements, an artist collective that expresses the connections between science and social justice through hip-hop, art-installations, interactive performance and technology,...

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Encountering the Kinsey Collection

Published July 25, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Brandon D. Nixon, Harvey B. Gantt Center I had been away traveling in the Middle East for a few weeks and hardly knew what to expect from the Harvey B. Gantt Center’s current exhibition, The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey - Where Art and History...

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Celebrate NoDa this weekend

Published July 25, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek

We all know NoDa rocks, but at a festival this Saturday, July 27, NoDaRioty, the neighborhood’s nonprofit arts committee, will celebrate that fact with a new festival- NoDa Roxx. Taking place on Cullman Avenue from 12-8 p.m., the festival is free and open to all ages. There will be live...

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Turning bikes into works of art, Detroit’s East Side Riders are up for the People’s Choice Award

Published July 25, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

Now through Aug. 9, five small Detroit arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Dywayne Neeley of nominee East Side Riders, a group of artists who customize bikes as their means of creative expression, talks about why his group...

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“Bubbles” opens at the Miami Science Museum

Published July 25, 2013 by Neil de la Flor

There's nothing like firsthand experience with phenomenon to ignite a child's imagination, and it's difficult to accept that summer vacation, at least for the kids, is almost over. In a few weeks, kids across South Florida head back to school to learn about math, history, art and science—at least that's...

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Abstraction and expression reign at Grizzly Grizzly

Published July 25, 2013 by CSchwartz

The Grizzly Grizzly show “Love's Industrial Park” is by any measure a study in sensuousness. Riddled with all manner of painted shapes, bulbous forms, bright colors and enticing textures, New York artists Laura Frantz, Clare Grill, Linnea Paskow and Elisa Soliven, along Philadelphia painter Sarah Gamble, fill the space of...

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Clay tile workshop at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

Published July 25, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Barbara Johnson Ross, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art On Saturday, July 13, 2013, the Ohr O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi was proud to host visiting artist Sheri Marshall of Holly Springs, Mississippi for a Studio Ohr workshop. Marshall creates beautiful carved tiles featuring various species of birds. Each student...

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The Project [theatre]: July Update

Published July 24, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Jackie Rivera, The Project [theatre] JULY! Its hot. Its sticky. and Miami just got one blonde blue-eyed stud hotter. Sorry to break the news like this...but our in-house hunk, David Hemphill, Artistic Director of The Project [theatre] is happening to Miami all over again, and this time with concerted...

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Celebrate Viernes Culturales/Cultural Friday July 26

Published July 24, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Pati Vargas, viernesculturales.org Join us July 26th for another Viernes Cultural/Cultural Friday. Little Havana's popular art, music and culture festival for everyone. The last Friday of every month, enjoy music, free walking tour by Historian Dr. Paul George, free face painting for children and discover works by local artisans...

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Bragg Jam music festival offers a genuine example of creative placemaking

Published July 24, 2013 by Jonathan Harwell-Dye

The Bragg Jam 2013 poster designed by Modern Giant. There are many threads in the fabric of a community. Once intertwined, architecture, well-designed parks and spectacular public art can work together to strengthen and enrich society. The synergy of arts and cultural activity within a community...

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“Real/Surreal” is the newest exhibit at the Akron Art Museum

Published July 24, 2013 by Roger Durbin

“Real/Surreal,” the latest display mounted by the Akron Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee, goes all out to answer the question about the transition in art history from fastidiousness with realism as a technique to the exploration of the surreal. What’s the difference, you ask? Good question. Technically, realism gives...

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Lowertown Roots Music Festival hits Mears Park this weekend, adds two venues

Published July 24, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler

The third annual Lowertown Roots Music Festival coming up this weekend is a relatively modest affair, and that’s its strong suit, I think. The overall schedule has a satisfying breadth of offerings and a big-tent interpretation of “roots music” – including bluegrass string pickers and blues fiddling, but also Louisiana...

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Community outlet for art and literature, Lo & Behold! Records & Books is up for People’s Choice Award

Published July 24, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

Now through Aug. 9, five small Detroit arts organizations are vying for the Knight Arts Challenge People’s Choice Award, offering a $20,000 prize. Below, Richard Wohlfeil of nominee LO & Behold! Records & Books, talks about why his group should get your vote. To see the other nominees and to...

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MTC / Miami Theater Center at the forefront of Cultural Passport programs

Published July 23, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

Founded in 2004 as The PlayGround Theater under the artistic direction of Stephanie Ansin, the theatre company was renamed MTC/Miami Theater Center in 2012. In the near decade since its inception, MTC audiences have numbered over 185,000 children and adults of all ages. Under the helm of Executive Director and...

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Florida Grand Opera honors opera icon Deborah Voigt at black tie dinner

Published July 23, 2013 by Valerie Nahmad

By Thais Menendez, Florida Grand Opera Florida Grand Opera, the state’s oldest arts organization, starts a new tradition this season by honoring renowned opera star Deborah Voigt with an extravagant black tie celebration entitled “Smoke & Mirrors,” hosted by event chairs Gloria Portal and Isa Leibowitz. Held at the DuPont...